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After issuing an import alert last year for an IPCA Laboratories API plant in India where employees had been falsifying drug testing results and deleting failed tests, the FDA began looking at its operations further upstream and has now banned products from two of IPCA's finished product facilities.

Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Gilead's Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) for the suppression of viremia in chronic hepatitis C virus, marking the first all-oral, interferon-free treatment regimen for genotype 2 HCV infection and the first product to be marketed by Gilead in Japan.

Edwards Lifesciences CEO Michael Mussallem testified before Congress on March 24 at a hearing entitled "Continuing America's Leadership: Advancing Research and Development for Patients." His comments focused on improving the FDA's medical device regulatory process, strengthening R&D infrastructure and continued encouragement of innovation.

Startup CardioKinetix has reported positive pivotal data from China on its catheter-based heart failure treatment, the Parachute Ventricular Partitioning Device. It expects these study results to support a regulatory submission with the China Food and Drug Administration.